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Has anybody on the list installed/used this distro? If so wouldn't mind a bit
of help.
Burnt the ISO's from the latest Linux Format magazine. Took a couple of
attempts to install but got there. My problem - I have a standard dial-up
modem and the installation gives you the network card setup so internet
download is out of the question, but, I installed the Stage3 tarball which
puts the .tgz files on your harddrive.
So methinks, I have the software there and all I need to do is install so as
1) get the necessary programmes to connect to the net and 2) install any
other programmes I might need.
What actually happens is that if, for example, I attempt to install the KDE
package, the system goes looking for any dependencies on the net despite the
fact that the dependencies reside on my hard drive. Obviously I can't install
anything.
Have checked all docs on the web page and nothing deals with a standard
dial-up modem or how to tell the package manager to look for the dependencies
on the hard drive.
Anybody able to help me here?
Thanks in anticipation.
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